Max Planck PostDoc Conference on Private Law
Over the last years, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law has organized several bi-annual Max Planck PostDoc Conferences on Private Law, each of which has proven a great success. Our junior colleagues from around the world have enjoyed presenting their theses at our Institute and engaging in stimulating exchange with the other participants.
If you are a postdoc or junior professor interested in getting to know our Institute and presenting the main theses of your current research, we encourage you to APPLY HERE for our PostDoc Conference 2024. Applications may be submitted until Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 11:59 p.m. (CET).
We look forward to hearing from you!
Requirements:
Candidates should be substantially advanced in their thesis and career trajectory. We are looking primarily for scholars who, by May 2024, will have formulated a secure thesis to which they are committed and who have progressed to a point that they have no concerns about divulging or giving away valuable ideas.
To maintain the link with our Institute, the candidates’ topics should fit into our research program: comparative law; foreign private law and global legal pluralism; private international law and international civil procedure; commercial, company and capital market law; family law; private law theory; European private law and harmonisation of private law.
We expect short presentations of roughly 30 minutes in English or French which summarize the main ideas and findings of the candidates’ research.
The contributions will not be published as most of the researchers will be publishing their work anyway.
Travel costs to and from Hamburg as well as accommodation will be covered by our Institute. Furthermore, we invite all speakers to stay another day to use our library and to conduct research at the Institute if they are so inclined.
Please have the following additional documents ready for your online application:
- A conclusive description of your research topic. This text should indicate in particular how your topic relates to the research program of the Institute. Maximum length: 3.000 characters.
- A CV indicating, among other things, your current position and supervisor (if applicable) as well as the topic and publication date of your dissertation.
- A current list of publications.
** Please note that the Max Planck PostDoc Conference on Private Law is aimed particularly at junior researchers from non-German-speaking countries. German-speaking candidates from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and Switzerland are welcome to apply to our German-language equivalent to the PostDoc Conference, the “Habilitand*innenkolloquium”. **
Header image: © Johanna Detering / Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law